Wine 1.5.6 has been released! PPA

by M. Zinoune

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Wine 1.5.6 has been released, this bi-weekly development release comes with an automatic installation of the Mono add-on package, a control panel applet for joysticks, device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine, support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9), first steps towards a D3D shader compiler, build fixes for DragonFly BSD, and various bug fixes.

Why should there be excitement with every new Wine release? Wine for me is a proof that there are tools from the Windows world, many Linux users still cannot live without. Shouldn’t it be the other way around, were a user would wish he could work with a pure Linux system? Sure, it’s a tool that gives you more options, but still…

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Wine is a proof that the software development companies and the games development studios to be more precise, are following the appetite of the standard monopolistic strategies of Microsoft and the sane choice of supporting the most used platform, and almost all of them still develop only Windows versions of their applications/games.
Wine is simply the only way to deal with this. It may not be the ideal way, but right now it is the one and only…